Hermann Hesse Quotes - Page 3

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• . . . gentleness is stronger than severity, water is stronger than rock, love is stronger than force.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Rocks, Water

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• Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path.

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  Running, Stars, Fall

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.56, Om Books International

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• Theory is knowledge that doesn't work. Practice is when everything works and you don't know why.

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  Knowledge, Practice, Theory

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• Life is waiting everywhere, the future is flowering everywhere, but we only see a small part of it and step on much of it with our feet

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Leader

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• Solitude is independence.

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  Being Alone, Creativity, Solitude

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• If I know what love is, it is because of you.

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  Love, Life, Anniversary

  "Narcissus and Goldmund". Book by Hermann Hesse, 1930.

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• No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.

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  Flow, Fit, Wave

  Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.429, Macmillan

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• To nobody can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in your hour of enlightenment.

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  Teaching, Enlightenment, Hours

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• Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

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  Maturity, Doe, Live For Others

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• The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.

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  Truth, Faces, Millions

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• You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own;
  The final step you must take alone.
  No wisdom is better than this when known:
  That every hard thing is done alone.

  Hermann Hesse

  Finals, Done, Steps

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• All higher humor begins with ceasing to take oneself seriously.

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  Humor, Higher, Oneself

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• The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood.

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  Trust, Art, Magic

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• The truth is lived, not taught.

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  Truth, Literature, Taught

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• There is a miracle in every new beginning

  Hermann Hesse

  New Beginnings, Miracle

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• Faith is stronger than so-called reality.

  Hermann Hesse

  Stronger, Reason

  "Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays".

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• When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.

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  Mean, Thinking, Goal

  "Siddhartha". Book by Hermann Hesse, p. 140, 1922.

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• Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

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  People, Mind, Age

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• A man who is ill-adjusted to the world is always on the verge of finding himself. One who is adjusted to the world never finds himself, but gets to be a cabinet minister.

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  Success, Men, World

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• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

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  Communication, Different, Littles

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• For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

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  Lonely, Men, Tree

  Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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• Every politician in the world is all for revolution, reason, and disarmament-but only in enemy countries, not in his own.

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  Country, War, Enemy

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• Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

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  Freedom, Ideas, Literature

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• What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

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  Hate, Hatred, Siddhartha

  Demian ch. 6 (1919)

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